"Osage Grammar is the first documentation of how the Osage language works, including more than two thousand sentences from Osage speakers, and a detailed description of its phonology, morphology, and syntax. Also featured are such components as verb conjugations, derivation, and suffixes; kinship terms; and the nominal system. The importance of documenting a language, especially one on the verge of extinction, can hardly be overstated. Growing up in Osage County, Oklahoma, Carolyn Quintero has been documenting the Osage language for twenty years, speaking to more than a dozen elders and transcribing hundreds of hours of interviews. Her research could not now be repeated since most of the elders whose words appear on these pages are gone."--BOOK JACKET.Lire la suite...

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Today the Osage tribe numbers about 18,000, but only two elders still speak the traditional language. Osage Grammar is the first documentation of how the Osage language works, including more than two thousand sentences from Osage speakers, and a detailed description of its phonology, morphology, and syntax.Lire la suite...

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"Osage Grammar is an important contribution to the linguistic description of the Siouan languages and is destined to become a seminal reference work in the field."-Anthropological Linguistics * Anthropological Linguistics *Lire la suite...

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